More DDoS attacks in the news, and now hitting something closer to home for most of our users: GoDaddy EU announced that a DDoS attack on Monday caused problems in their system for over 24 hours. (more…)
Author: wpuser
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PHP Troubleshooting: Too Many Sessions Causes Bottleneck
A client came to us with server loads of 200-400 during peak times. (He has a 64 core 32 GB server and a 4-CPU LSWS license.) Detailed observation revealed that PHP processes were eating up his processing power. But why? What were they doing? Taking out the trash. (more…)
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Be Very Afraid: DDoS Attacks in the News
Sorry for the sensationalistic headline. We don’t want you to overreact. Yes, the Internet is dangerous now, but it’s always been a dangerous place. Below you’re going to find a bunch of articles pointing out just how dangerous the Internet is (and especially focusing on DDoS attacks) (more…)
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To the Rescue: LiteSpeed’s Free Anti-DDoS Service is Back!
After taking a couple months to retool, we’re bringing back our ever-popular, FREE anti-DDoS proxy service. (more…)
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WordPress Plugin: Keep Your Cache Up-to-Date
Here’s a plugin that will automatically repopulate your LiteSpeed Cache when an article gets updated on WordPress (more…)
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Not Even Close: Ruby LSAPI 4.1 Bests Nginx + Passenger (Another Benchmark)
Part 2 — Downloading
In the last post, we benchmarked the uploading speed of LSWS 4.2.2 (with Ruby LSAPI 4.1) against Nginx with Passenger for a Ruby Rails Rack application. But rewindableinput was not our only change in Ruby LSAPI 4.1. (more…)
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Don’t Get Overrun When You Update
4.2.2 New Features: REFRESH Cache, Stale Cache Mechanism
1. How to REFRESH/PURGE cache manually
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc>/usr/local/lsws/admin/fcgi-bin/admin_php purge_cache_byurl.php
Synopsis: php purge_cache_byurl.php -(r|p) domain url [server_ip] [port]-r: refresh cache (use stale cache while updating cache)
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Not Even Close: Ruby LSAPI 4.1 Bests Nginx + Passenger (A Benchmark, Of Course)
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Switching from Apache: Open_Basedir in the Shared Hosting Environment
Summary
Open_basedir, a PHP directive, is ignored by suPHP. LSWS, however, honors open_basdir settings. So, when you move from Apache to LSWS, you may encounter restrictions that, though they were there before, were never honored in your shared hosting environment. (more…)
